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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| How To Get Bitcoin In Your Stock Portfolio |
| This report is an ADVERTISEMENT from Oilprice.com
2017 has undoubtedly been the year of bitcoin, breaking $1000 dollars on New Year’s Day before rocketing up to $15000 in early December. That’s a return of 1500 percent!
And as market fascination grows, investors are beginning to understand the real secret behind bitcoin’s success – the blockchain.
Blockchain is transforming markets with bitcoin, but that is only the beginning – it could soon change the world.
To understand how, you must first uWednesday, December 20, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| EVERY WORKING AMERICAN OWES $ 1.5 MILLION |
| The facts just don’t add up. US wages are falling, trade deficit is at 10 year high, debt is surging so are stocks and the US Government has again managed to publish a number of contradicting employment figures that make no sense whatsoever.
A CONFIDENT BUT UNEMPLOYED CONSUMER
US Consumer Sentiment
US Consumer Sentiment is the highest in 13 years. At the same time US October Household Employment Survey dropped 484,000 and the Labour Force shrank by 765,000. But due to manipulation of the figureFriday, November 10, 2017 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| At the Junction of Risk 'On' and Risk 'Off' |
| By Gary Tanashian[edit] As I do the actual work of plowing through NFTRH 472 I am noting some non-bond related indicators in line with the fading Junk/Quality ratios and easing Treasury yields noted in this post. If preliminary hints in these indicators intensify and long-term yield breakouts fail, we may get a market reaction of some kind and lurch to risk ‘off’ sooner rather than later. Most market charts remain straight up bullish. But charts are charts and indicators are a whole other animalSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
 Light It Up  |
| War, children,
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away
— You Know Who
Grinning like Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat, the Golden Golem of Greatness pronounced this interval of fine fall weather “the calm before the storm.” Hmmmm. Talk about cryptic. This was less than a week after he verbally smacked down Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for “wasting his time” trying to diplomatically reach “Little Rocket Man… “ whereby Rex riposted, calling the President a “moron.”
Ordinarily — say, during the paFriday, October 6, 2017 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| As Good as it Gets; Like 2000 With a TWIST |
| By Gary TanashianWith the Semiconductor sector below but hailing its all-time highs, a lot of images come to mind; chief among them the 1999-2000 stock market bubble…In early 2013 we noted a progression that would go on to birth the current economic expansion and stock market boom (of course, I didn’t come close to envisioning the extent of the boom that followed). I’ve belabored it often since, but here’s the short version of the progression yet again…Fiscal Cliff drama resolves into market relThursday, October 5, 2017 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| How Will History’s Largest Bubble, And Anti-Bubble, End |
| Until recently, I have said we are not in a financial bubble; because unlike previous bubbles – as in 1929, 1987, 2000, and 2008 – public participation has decidedly NOT fueled it. In this case, government intervention has been entirely responsible until this point; first, in “bailing out” Wall Street; and second, “supporting” desirable financial markets like stocks, bonds, and real estate, both overtly and covertly. This, whilst suppressing “undesirable” markets like Precious Metals; which foWednesday, May 3, 2017 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Fed Rate Hikes, Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy and Why Again the Case for Gold |
| By Gary TanashianI’ve been thinking about the current Fed Funds rate hike cycle, which is logically gaining forward momentum now that the Fed can stand down from its 8-year, ultra-lenient monetary policy cycle. That is because the Obama administration’s goals required a compliant Federal Reserve to continually re-liquefy the economy as its fiscal policies drained it.With the coming of Trump mania and its very different fiscal policy goals, we will witness the end of much of what I considered toWednesday, March 15, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Fourteen Years AFTER Bernanke Defined the U.S. Dollar as Worthless - Jeff Nielson |
| History can be a cruel mistress – at least
when one is able to find it via Google’s increasingly “forgetful” search
engine. Who was it that made the following remark, on
November
21, 2002
?
“Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are
strictly limited in supply.” [emphasis mine]
Here is a hint for regular readers. It’s
the same person responsible for the chart below.
That’s right, B.S. Bernanke. The same
Federal Reserve Governor who stated that the U.S. dollar canFriday, January 27, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
Malice in Wonderland  |
| Malice in WonderlandRecently, I was quietly reading in my armchair, eyes closing and trying to stay awake, and the next moment I was falling down a rabbit hole. After falling into the void, I found myself outside a castle, which can only be described as very Gothic in the darkest sense. A door opened in the castle wall, and I was beckoned in by a tall dark-haired man, who was wearing a long black cloak.He said he was a representative for ME Phistopheles & Co, a firm located in multiple undergrouFriday, January 13, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Two Hottest Commodities For Investors In 2017 |
| This report from OilPrice.com is a paid advertorial.
The same nightmare that haunts electric vehicle producers with massive production plans is a waking dream for cobalt/lithium explorers like LiCo Energy Metals (TSX:LIC.V; OTCQB:WCTXF), who are now poised for a breakout with a major new project in Chile that comes amid tight future supply for two of the most critical minerals of our time.
If you thought lithium was set to soar because the future supply picture looks dire in the face of the EVTuesday, January 10, 2017 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| 2016: A Year for Contrarians; 2017 Shaping Up That Way as Well |
| By: Gary Tanashian2016 was the year I finally decided to codify my niche as a psychology-focused market contrarian, putting the Alice, Red Queen and Rabbit components of NFTRH’s logo right there on my inner forearm, forever.This is because I love the imagery and themes of NFTRH’s guiding metaphorical story, Alice in Wonderland, and because the weird technical tools I use are generally in service to one thing; being right when the herds are going the wrong way. The concept originally came to me Wednesday, December 28, 2016 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Draghi-In-Wonderland: ECB Bond-Buying Announcement |
| There were wild fluctuations today in European bonds as the ECB announced it would Hold Interest rates at Zero but Taper Bond Purchases.
The ECB is stuck between opposing interests and some of the details of its announcement lead to Alice-in-Wonderland results.
ECB holds rate at zero percent
ECB extends QE until December 2017
ECB lowers QE purchases from €80bn a month to a month
Draghi says he is not tapering
Draghi says central bank will remove floor for bond purchases below deposit rate
SeeThursday, December 8, 2016 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Central Banks and Their Role in Financial Turmoil |
| Investment advisor Adrian Day comments on the causes and effects of the policies of central banks and regulation on the economy and markets, which were topics of conversation at the recent Cato Monetary Conference.
The theme of this year's conference was "Central Banks and Financial Turmoil," the role of central banks in preventing and overcoming turmoil, as well as the role of central banks in causing such turmoil. There are always subthemes: This yeaWednesday, November 30, 2016 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Import and Export Prices Tick Up, Econoday Robot Claims Progress |
| Import prices are up 0.1% matching the Econoday Consensus estimate in an unusually wide range of estimates from -0.3% to +0.4%.
Export prices rose 0.3% vs.a consensus 0.1%. This may boost third quarter GDP estimate slightly.
Progress is the theme in September’s import & export price report where emerging pressures may be appearing. Import prices rose 0.1 percent in the month with export prices up 0.3 percent. And year-on-year rates are finally coming up for air, at only minus 1.1 percent for iFriday, October 14, 2016 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast - Jeff Thomas |
| Alice
laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible
things.”
“I
daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the queen. “When I was your age,
I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”
-
Alice in
Wonderland
We live in an age
when the level of deceit and propaganda is at an all-time high. Josef Goebbels,
Vladimir Lenin and others did their best to force-feed propaganda to the
masFriday, October 7, 2016 |
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| Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| We Need More Debt: $152 Trillion is Simply Not Enough to Stimulate the Global Economy! |
| Today we learned from the IMF that World Debt Hits $152 Trillion.
That’s a record breaking amount. It’s also more than two times the size of the entire global economy.
The problem is: It’s simply not enough.
How do I know it’s not enough? Paul Krugman, Larry Summers and other Keynesian economists tell us that.
Not Enough Debt
Paul Krugman tells us Debt is Good.
Krugman says … “Believe it or not, many economists argue that the economy needs a sufficient amount of public debt out there to functWednesday, October 5, 2016 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| BoJ, FOMC and Where to Now |
| The Bank of Japan gave us a glimpse as to just how far down the rabbit hole we may have to follow global policy makers as we try to make sense of ever more complex and shall we say, innovative ‘tools’ being used in the effort to engineer individual economies and asset markets within the global financial system. BoJ announced it would conduct “JGB purchase operations” in order to “prevent the yield curve from deviating substantially from the current levels”.The market initially iMonday, September 26, 2016 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Evaluating The “Rally”: How Long To Get To $10,000/oz - Jeff Nielson |
| There’s a “rally” in the gold market right
now, and (to a lesser extent) in silver. We’re told this by the mainstream
media – in between its salvos of gold-bashing. Sadly, we have also seen this
parroted by numerous Alternative Media commentators. So let’s examine this
“rally” yet again.
The rally started almost precisely on the
first day of the year (nothing suspicious about that). In the 8 ½ months since
then, the price of gold has risen by roughly $250, or a little below $30/month.
For convThursday, September 15, 2016 |
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| Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| Gold: The Good and the Not Yet Good |
| The GoodThursday's ISM report was Thing 1 in improving the backdrop for gold. But it was a small Thing. Friday's August Payrolls report was Thing 2, and it was a better Thing. Gold and especially the gold mining sector are invigorated fundamentally during economic easing, not during economic growth phases, inflationary or otherwise.In this post we'll review two of the charts (gold vs. commodities and gold vs. stock markets) we have used since before the new gold bull market bMonday, September 5, 2016 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Hyperinflation Defined, Explained, and Proven: Part II - Jeff Nielson |
| Part
I
began the somewhat ambitious mission described in the title: providing
readers with the true definition of the term “hyperinflation”, in both economic
and mathematical terms. This was done through first defining the term
“inflation” itself. It was then explained how the dynamics of
inflation/hyperinflation operate, through the use of a simple allegory.
Finally, readers were provided with a real-life illustration: the
hyperinflation of the U.S.
money
supply
.
Part II continues this miSaturday, August 6, 2016 |
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